An empirical investigation of the seaport’s economic impact: Evidence from major ports in China

Shan, Jun; Yu, Ming L.; Lee, Chung Yee

doi:10.1016/j.tre.2014.05.010

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“…Uniquely for China, [9] concluded that seaport investment has a positive effect on regional economic growth, but with obvious differences at the regional and provincial level. In China as well [3] have confirmed the positive impact of the seaport activity on the host city economic growth. On the whole, three conclusions were made.…”

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confidence: 69%

“…Recently, a major number of studies have been devoted to investigating the effect of seaport investment on national economic growth. The findings of these studies [1][2][3][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] showed that there is a positive relationship between seaport investment and economic growth. Most previous researchers used a production function approach to estimate the effects of seaport investment infrastructure on economic growth.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Seaport is seen as a determinant of the economic growth, it contributes to the development of economic sectors and to the generation of economic benefits [1][2][3]. Political evaluation of economic impacts of a seaport is usually effectuated by the government to motivate the request for public funds for developing the existing infrastructure or to constructing a new seaport or to justify its social costs.…”

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Impacts of Seaport Investment on the Economic Growth

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2016

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“…In recent studies we can see different attempts to assess the regional effects of port development. Using regional and macro panel data of China from 2003 to 2010, Shan et al (2014) find positive effects of a port (or container port) on the economic growth of Chinese regions. In the analysis on aggregated regional production function of Spain, Arbues el al.…”

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Spatial effects of container ports on production of the leather, bag and shoe industry in Korea

Park¹,

Medda²

2018

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Container port operations are widely regarded as being beneficial to regional economies, particularly in aggregated terms. The present paper examines this common knowledge in the specific case of the leather, bag and shoe industry in Korea. The authors use two panel datasets of the industry, one dataset of 16 regions and the other dataset of enduring establishments from 1991 to 2011. In our analysis with panel data of the regions, the authors find that an increase of container throughput in ports affects production of the industry positively during the examined period. When dividing the examined period into two periods, the authors observe the negative effects during the period before 2003 and primarily in the groups of regions without large ports. The panel data model of enduring establishments presents a negative coefficient of port throughput on production. The contradictory results may be caused by the characteristics of the two different panels.

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“…In order to investigate the impact of transport infrastructure status, related investments, carbon dioxide emissions from transport, and other specific air pollutants on sustainable economic growth, we primary employed a panel data multivariate linear regression model [19,34,49,51,54,66,68,79,86,88,94] with the basic form being as follows:…”

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Empirical Evidence from EU-28 Countries on Resilient Transport Infrastructure Systems and Sustainable Economic Growth

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This paper examines the nexus between the main forms of transport, related investments, specific air pollutants, and sustainable economic growth. The research is important since transport may act as a facilitator of social, economic, and environmental development. Based on data retrieved from Eurostat, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and World Bank, the output of fixed-effects regressions for EU-28 countries over 1990-2016 reveals that road, inland waterways, maritime, and air transport infrastructure positively influence gross domestic product per capita (GDPC), though a negative link occurred in the case of railway transport. As concerning investments in transport infrastructure, the empirical results exhibit a positive impact on economic growth for every type of transport, except inland waterways. Besides, emissions of CO 2 from all kind of transport, alongside other specific air pollutants, negatively influence GDPC. The fully modified and dynamic ordinary least squares panel estimation results reinforce the findings. Further, in the short-run, Granger causality based on panel vector error correction model pointed out a unidirectional causal link running from sustainable economic growth to inland waterways and maritime transport of goods, albeit a one-way causal link running from the volume of goods transported by air to GDPC. As well, the empirical results provide support one-way short-run links running from GDPC to investments in road and inland waterway transport infrastructure. In addition, a bidirectional short-run link occurred between carbon dioxide emissions from railway transport and GDPC, whereas unidirectional relations with economic growth were identified in the case of carbon dioxide emissions from road and domestic aviation. In the long-run, a bidirectional causal relation was noticed between the length of the railways lines, investments in railway transport infrastructure, and GDPC, as well as a two-way causal link between the gross weight of seaborne goods handled in ports and GDPC.

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An empirical investigation of the seaport’s economic impact: Evidence from major ports in China

Cited by 103 publications

References 24 publications

Impacts of Seaport Investment on the Economic Growth

Impacts of Seaport Investment on the Economic Growth

Spatial effects of container ports on production of the leather, bag and shoe industry in Korea

Empirical Evidence from EU-28 Countries on Resilient Transport Infrastructure Systems and Sustainable Economic Growth

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